Shara, guarantees individual freedoms but gives Mr. al-Shara abundant power and keeps Islamic law as its legal foundation.

The country is trying to move forward following an outbreak of sectarian violence that has killed hundreds of people ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Following the collapse of the Assad regime, I ended my article last December with the following paragraph: “The new government must represent all Syrians, ...

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that leaves the country under Islamist rule for five ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

An ambush on a Syrian security patrol by gunmen loyal to ousted leader Bashar Assad escalated into clashes that a war monitor estimates have killed more than 1,000 people over four days ...

A war monitoring group said more than 1,000 were killed in revenge attacks and clashes between Syrian security forces and ...

You do not want to play from behind against Kansas City, and you don’t want to be in a position where you’ve got to ...

The death toll from recent clashes in Syria has surpassed 1,000, with significant casualties among civilians, security forces ...

Thousands of Jews left Syria in 1992, when they were allowed to emigrate. The visit by a small delegation of U.S.-based ...